How to Get It

Analysis

This list has 3 great options to take you from the U.S. to just about anywhere in Europe for 12,500 miles each way.

Here’s an example flight from Washington, D.C.-IAD to Athens, Greece-ATH:

Source: http://ds-lands.com/athens.html

Booking this 6-day visit to Athens, Greece in KLM/Air France economy class will only cost you 25,000 + $317 in taxes/fuel surcharge. Using the handy Weekend Blitz Award Calculator, we know that this yields a return of 1.71 cents/point on your FlyingBlue/AMEX points. This isn’t phenomenal but isn’t terrible either.

You could also stack 2 of the promo awards and book a flight from Washington, D.C., Houston, or Chicago to Singapore-SIN, with a few stops in Europe:

This scenario stacks the 12,500 one-way from the U.S. to Europe and the 20,000 one-way from Europe to Singapore.

You could accomplish this by booking 4x one-way flights, which would allow you to have the multiple stopovers in Europe and a weekend in Singapore. With the promo awards, the total for this trip would be appx 65,000 miles + $600.48 in taxes/surcharges. The cheapest you could book this same itinerary in dollars is around $3,100:

BOTTOM LINE: This round of Air France/KLM promos gives you 3 U.S. cities to choose from for booking 25,000 mile roundtrip flights to Europe–it’s really hard to beat this deal! Consider booking as multiple one-way flights to maximize stopover and open-jaws and consider stacking the promotions for better worldwide travel options outside of Europe.